Welcome to my aviation history page. It had not been seriously updated for many years, but the need to change my hosting platform did oblige me to make some updates. I am trying to keep it simple, but that my amateurish use of HTML and CSS has gone out of the window is probably a good thing! The site will now also contains articles transferred from the website of Anthony G. Williams, my co-author on the Flying Guns series of books, as it looked convenient to us to have them on one site. His website was off-line for some time, but has now been restored.

The Flying Guns series once began with the message that I would welcome a lot of work: It was, and we wrote three books instead of one. They were published by Crowood Press from 2003 onwards. Many works on the history of military aviation turn a blind eye to the real purpose of these machines, focusing on their often brilliant engineering, and ignoring that they were built to kill and destroy. Yet that was their purpose, which they too often accomplished with blind lack of selectivity, but also at times failed to achieve. We aimed to set the record straight by focusing, as it were, on the business end. Since publication of these books a fair amount of research was done by professional historians (which I am not) but I hope they remain a good starting point. 

Also hosted here are a series of articles that we created on specific topics, because we had some interest in them, came across interesting source material, or wanted to argue a point:

Articles by Emmanuel Gustin	Articles by Anthony G. Williams
Twin-Engined fighters of WWII	World War 2 Fighter Armament Effectiveness
Light Fighters of WWI	Modern Fighter Gun Effectiveness
Armour of the Air	The development of RAF guns and ammunition
Interceptor Rex: The Avro Arrow
BAC TSR.2
Medium Bombers of WWII in chapters I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI and Bibliography